{"product_id":"affective-ecocriticism-emotion-embodiment-environment-hardback-9781496206794","title":"Affective Ecocriticism; Emotion, Embodiment, Environment (Hardback) 9781496206794","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmotion, Embodiment, Environment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKyle Bladow (Edited by), Jennifer Ladino (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496206794\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages, 9 photographs, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e cements the importance of affect – and not only data or narrative – to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren’t merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response.”-Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of \u003ci\u003eEcosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but \u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims.”-Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of \u003ci\u003eAffect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eScholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. \u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective-and consequently more effective-ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poetry, curricular programs, and contentious geopolitical locales such as Canada’s Tar Sands. Several chapters deal skeptically with familiar environmentalist affects like love, hope, resilience, and optimism; others consider what are often understood as negative emotions, such as anxiety, disappointment, and homesickness-all with an eye toward reinvigorating or reconsidering their utility for the environmental humanities and environmentalism. \u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e offers an accessible approach to this theoretical intersection that will speak to readers across multiple disciplinary and geographic locations.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene    \u003cbr\u003e Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Theoretical Foundations\u003cbr\u003e 1. “\u003cbr\u003ewhat do we do but keep breathing as best we can this \/ minute atmosphere”\u003cbr\u003e: Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety    \u003cbr\u003e Nicole M. Merola\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene    \u003cbr\u003e Alexa Weik von Mossner\u003cbr\u003e 3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality    \u003cbr\u003e Neil Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice\u003cbr\u003e 4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’\u003cbr\u003es Tar Sands    \u003cbr\u003e Jobb Arnold\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn    \u003cbr\u003e William Major\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology    \u003cbr\u003e Tom Hertweck\u003cbr\u003e 7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment    \u003cbr\u003e Ryan Hediger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e 8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud    \u003cbr\u003e Robert Azzarello\u003cbr\u003e 9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene    \u003cbr\u003e Brian Deyo\u003cbr\u003e 10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild    \u003cbr\u003e Allyse Knox-Russell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect    \u003cbr\u003e Nicole Seymour\u003cbr\u003e 12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking    \u003cbr\u003e Lisa Ottum\u003cbr\u003e 13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect    \u003cbr\u003e Graig Uhlin\u003cbr\u003e 14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula    \u003cbr\u003e Sarah Jaquette Ray\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694723690776,"sku":"9781496206794","price":40.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/affective-ecocriticism-emotion-embodiment-environment-hardback-9781496206794","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}